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Show Violations Cost Californians $2,000 Division of Wildlife Resources law enforcement enforce-ment authorities were notified no-tified that a camp of nonresident non-resident deer hunters had been engaged in illegal activities in San Juan county. Investigation of the matter this year bore out the accusations, indicating in-dicating that the group of hunters were involved in numerous violations, according to Law En- forccment Chi el JolinNa-);el. JolinNa-);el. Nagel said the investigation inves-tigation spanned most of the deer season. Once illegal activities could be proven, Division wildlife officers filed complaints against the five California hunters and the camp operator op-erator with the San Juan, county attorney. The officers then took the hunters to the magistrate magis-trate who assessed bonds totalling $2,000 on 13 charges. Several of the men could not post bond, so were jailed until their bond could be arranged. Charges included killing more than one big game animal, unlawful use and transfer of another person's per-son's hunting license, wasting of wildlife and tagging violations. Nagel said wildlife officers of-ficers received good cooperation co-operation from the San Juan county sheriff's office of-fice and county attorney in the case. lie pointed out that the violations committed by the six men are the type that "hurt the honest hunter most and have damaging da-maging effects on the resource re-source They are exactly the type of violations that the Division wants tocur-tail." |